Finishing someone else's UFO
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Last year I got a bunch of fabric from a friend at an estate sale. Her elderly aunt was being moved into a relative's home and there was a lot to get rid of. Her aunt had done quilting and a lot of other needlework throughout the years. In the fabric was this UFO. The first picture below is the top after I sewed on two rows that were obvious where they went. Laying on the top is the fabric that is labeled "border". There is still a lot of other fabric, specifically the strip pieces shown in the second photo. Any ideas what I would do with those strip pieces in relationship to this top?
I'm thinking of using the "border fabric" as the backing and just finishing it as a lap quilt.
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I'm thinking of using the "border fabric" as the backing and just finishing it as a lap quilt.
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If the original quilter is like me, she bought the fabric thinking it would go together. But once the other blocks were made it was fairly obvious it would not blend into the quilt. Or she may have pulled it from her stash hoping it would go and then did not. Thus the UFO. I have quite a few pieces that I bought thinking it will go with fabric and once the blocks were put together, there was no way.
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It is matching fabric. I have the receipt from the quilt store with a snippet of each fabric with notes of "light, medium, dark (the pink), and border.
There are more strips of fabric cut and labeled with size.
Maybe I can use the sewn strip sets and other fabrics in some scrappy quilts
There are more strips of fabric cut and labeled with size.
Maybe I can use the sewn strip sets and other fabrics in some scrappy quilts
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Oh I hate it that she had to give up all her stash and quilting. maybe you could make up the lap quilt for her? I wonder if the pink with the floral was to be an inner border. or to use only on the top and bottom to make it longer... it is a question. shame you can't ask her.
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I think I'm going to use the large floral print as the backing (there is enough) and the pink as the binding (it's labeled as being for the binding.
I did find out the fabric is a line from Robert Kaufmann in 2006 by Jennifer Sampou.
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